I've temporarily removed the font-replacement code which I think may have been causing the flickering. Are you able to test it smoke and let me know if its now fixed at your end?

I'm going to be honest about something and I'm sorry in advance if it pisses anyone off but I want to get it off my chest after yesterdays posts.

The LAST thing I want is for Axl to fail. Axl's music is very important to me. Disproportionately so even. It's why I have a stupid number of posts talking about this band and it's spin off bands.

This doesn't just apply to his old music. I've posted many times about how hearing those screams in twat really kind of touched me emotionally in ways other music hasn't. Just hearing the demo of Catcher many years ago inspired me that it was possible for people to still write great songs even when so much has been done before, and inspired me to go back to working on my own songwriting. So Axl's music is fundamental to me.

It's strange to me that guys like Russ and Nemo and others who I know are long term supporters of the band like me can listen to the same thing I did last night and not notice what I did. I'm happy you guys enjoyed it. I won't go into detail about the issues I noticed, other than to clarify, that I'm not expecting Axl at 50 to sound like he did at 21 - but what I can't deny that I've noticed is a massive shift in his sound since 2009. I have a bootleg of the band from 2009 that sounds now like an entirely different lead singer to what we heard last night.

Watching the part where the jungle lyrics die, to me it looks like Axl doesn't forget them but is actually unable to sing them. I wonder if there's deeper medical issues at play and perhaps that's why he's generally avoiding rasp and more punishing techniques too. But that's speculation.

Perhaps that is just how it has to be. I have no idea of the real reasons it happens - as none of us actually know Axl's medical state, practise regimen, voice condition relative to his age or any other factors. I'm just saying there's a dramatic difference noticeable in these videos which are only 3 years apart and to me that's a cause of concern.

Hopefully it turns out to be a temporary change, like his 01 voice was, or perhaps he'll be able to songwrite in the future in ways that compliment and  accommodate the voice he has now. I hope so.

I just found it odd that other people don't hear it. And then when it was mentioned we're told it's either because we want to be negative or because we expect him to be 20 years old. For myself neither of those things could be further from the truth.

I deeply respect Axl as a musician, performer, songwriter and lyricist and I really hope that in the future he shares more music with us, and if there's medical problems I'd support him though that too, I'm just saying I can't lie and say that I don't notice issues with the performance last night.